Due to a preoccupation with periods of large-scale social change, nationalism research had
long neglected everyday nationhood in contemporary democracies. Recent scholarship …

The study of memory straddles a wide range of social science disciplines including
sociology, psychology, anthropology, and geography. Within sociology, reviews of the …

Directing attention to racial ignorance as a core dimension of racialized social systems, this
article advances a process-focused Theory of Racial Ignorance (TRI), grounded in Critical …

Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past
should be imagined as something 'absent'or 'distant.'Victims of historical injustice, however …

Peace processes are mostly very fragile. This engagingly written book takes a bold new
approach to the topic by beginning from the premise that sociology can identify those factors …

Collective memory quite naturally brings to mind notions of mnemonic speech and
representation. In this article, however, we propose that collective silences be thought of as …

How does culture shape our thinking? In what ways do our social and cultural worlds enter
into our mental worlds? How do the communities we belong to influence what we notice and …

Holidays in the Danger Zone exposes the mundane and everyday interactions between two
seemingly opposed worlds: warfare and tourism. Debbie Lisle shows how a tourist …

The Turkish Republic has entered the first decade of the twenty-first century with not only a
new government but also a new vision. The year 2002 witnessed the coming to power of the …

This article argues that attempts to conceptualize the memory boom in amnesic societies
have resulted in a clash between two theoretical stands: the approach which stresses the …